Foy porter, honneur garder | I want to stay faithful, guard your honor, |
Et pais querir, oubeir | Seek peace, obey |
Doubter, servir, et honnourer | Fear, serve and honor you, |
Vous vueil jusques au morir | Until death, |
Dame sans per. | Peerless Lady. |
I. | |
Car tant vous aim, sans mentir | For I love you so much, truly, |
Qu'on poroit avant tarir | that one could could sooner dry up |
La haute mer | the deep sea |
Et ses ondes retenir | and hold back its waves |
Que me peusse alentir | than I could constrain myself |
de vous amer. | from loving you, |
Sans fausser; car mi penser, | without falsehood; for my thoughts |
Mi souvenir, mi plaisir | my memories, my pleasures |
Et mi desir sont sans finer | and my desires are perpetually |
En vous que ne puis guerpir n'entroublier | of you, whom I cannot leave or even briefly forget. |
II. | |
Il ne'est joie ne joir | There is no joy or pleasure |
N'autre bien qu'on puist sentir | or any other good that one could feel |
N'imaginer | or imagine which does not seem to me worthless |
Qui ne me samble languir, | whenever your sweetness wants to sweeten my bitterness. |
Quant vo douceur adoucir vuet mon amer: | Therefore I want to praise |
Dont loer et aourer | and adore and fear you, |
Et vous cremier, tout souffrir, | suffer everything, |
Tout conjoir, Tout endurer | experience everything, endure everything |
Vueil plus que je ne desir Guerredonner. | more than I desire any reward. |
Foy porter . . . | I want to stay faithful . . . |
III. | |
Vous estes le vray saphir | You are the true sapphire |
Qui puet tous mes maus garir et terminer. | that can heal and end all my sufferings, |
Esmeraude a resjoir, | the emerald which brings rejoicing, |
Rubis pour cuers esclarcir et conforter. | the ruby to brighten and comfort the heart. |
Vo parler, vo regarder, | Your speech, your looks, |
Vo maintenir, font fuir et enhair et despiter | Your bearing, make one flee and hate and detest |
Tout vice et tout bien cherir et desirer | all vice and cherish and desire all that is good. |
Foy porter . | I want to stay faithful. . .
Guillaume de Machaut
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Guillaume de Machaut Foy Porter, Honneur Garder
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